Backup Your Files

One of the worst experiences you can have as a computer operator is to
realize you (or something else) just did something and wiped out your
files. The purpose of this article is to show you how to automatically
backup your files often and automatically. I use this setup to backup my
documents every hour (I save more often then that). This gives me hourly
versions of all my files I am working on. It even protects me from
accidentally saving over an important document (at least to the last
hour).

Install Rsync-incr

You could do everything you need with Rsync… but our goal here is easy
and automatic. Rsync-incr is a nice shell script that uses Rsync to do
incremental backups, surrounding it with an easy interface. Win Win..
The stability of Rsync, with an easy to use interface.

Mon Dec 29, 2008

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About the Author:

Steve Francia has been responsible for two of the largest commercial open
source projects as the current Chief Operator of the Docker Project and the
former Chief Developer Advocate of MongoDB. Steve has also run some of the top
community-based open source projects: spf13-vim, Hugo, Cobra & Viper

He loves open source and is thrilled to be able to work on it full-time and
then some. In writing, Steve tweets as @spf13,
codes on GitHub,
blogs at spf13.com,
connects on LinkedIn,
ocassionally posts on Google+
and has written a few books for O'Reilly.

In person, he enjoys giving talks and workshops and spending time with the
developer community around the world. When not coding, he is usually having fun
outdoors with his wife and four children.